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“It is critical that we use our expertise and the full power of the law to protect Americans from tobacco-related disease and death,” said Director Brian King of the FDA’s Center for Tobacco Products. “These statements will be an important complement to evidence-based strategies that prevent and reduce commercial tobacco use-the leading preventable cause of disease and death in the United States.” “We know that tobacco product marketing in retail stores influences young people to start using tobacco, increases tobacco product consumption, and makes it harder for people to quit,” said Director Deirdre Lawrence Kittner of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office on Smoking and Health. We are grateful to our colleagues at the Department of Justice for having completed this significant work.” “Smoking causes about 30% of all cancer deaths in the United States, and therefore the court-ordered corrective statements appearing at the point of cigarette sale will help support our mission to reduce the burden of cancer. “This is an important moment in the history of cancer control in the United States,” said Associate Director William Klein of the National Cancer Institute’s Behavioral Research program. Today’s order requiring implementation of that remaining remedy is a major achievement that will educate American consumers and save lives.” “All of these measures have been implemented, except one-the display of corrective statements in retail stores that sell cigarettes. Boynton, head of the Justice Department’s Civil Division.
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“Cigarette companies misled the public for decades about the health risks of smoking and were ordered by a federal court to implement a series of corrective measures,” said Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General Brian M. “Today’s resolution implements the last remedy of this litigation to ensure that consumers know the true dangers of the smoking products they may consider purchasing.” “Justice Department attorneys have worked diligently for over 20 years to hold accountable the tobacco companies that defrauded consumers about the health risks of smoking,” said Associate Attorney General Vanita Gupta. Reynolds Tobacco Company (RJRT) as well as to four cigarette brands owned by ITG Brands LLC (ITG). The order applies to defendants Altria, Philip Morris USA Inc. Under the order, defendants are now required to display signs in retail stores featuring corrective statements about the health effects and addictiveness of smoking. Today’s order imposes the last of several corrective remedies ordered by the court. Following a 2004-2005 trial, the court found that the cigarette companies had defrauded consumers about the health dangers associated with cigarette smoking. District Court for the District of Columbia.

The lawsuit was filed in 1999 in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, announced today the entry of a court order that resolves the government’s long-running civil racketeering lawsuit against the largest United States’ cigarette companies. The Justice Department, together with the U.S.
